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Post by Dear Dairy on Jul 20, 2008 14:26:51 GMT -5
Post your thoughts/questions/theories/comments about Story One of Cloud Atlas, "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing."
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magpie
Reptile Researcher
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Post by magpie on Jul 25, 2008 6:43:37 GMT -5
I reread this last night, specifically hunting for the birthmark - I didn't find it.
But I was really struck by how crammed in the instances of predatory behaviour are.
When I first read this section, I classed it as being about slavery. But we not only have wholesale slavery of races - the Maori and the Moriori, the missionaries and the islanders, the American slaves - but also lots of instances of individual exploitation - Ewing and Goose, Rafael and the Mate, the hoodwinked missionary...
If I had picked up more on that the first time, perhaps I would have found more thematic continuity with the mutually exploitative relationships in the Frobisher story instead of thinking it was a total jump.
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